Sheet of Studies: Two Male Heads in Profile and Standing Man
Jean-Baptiste Isabey
late 18th–mid-19th century
Medium
Brush and brown wash
Dimensions
12 7/16 x 7 5/8 in. (31.6 x 19.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Alexander B.V. Johnson and Roberta J.M. Olson, 1989
Accession Number
1989.380
Tags
HeadsMenProfiles
About the Artist
Jean-Baptiste Isabey · 1767–1855
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767–1855) was a French painter and miniaturist whose extraordinary longevity and adaptability allowed him to serve as the preeminent portraitist of successive French regimes — from the court of Louis XVI through the Revolution, the Napoleonic Empire, the Restoration, and into the July Monarchy — making his career an almost unparalleled chronicle of French political and socia...